Two Senior Police Officers Shot in Eastern Ukraine’s Horlivka

[Tommy_Carcetti]

Source: Moscow Times

Two senior police officers were shot on Tuesday in the eastern Ukrainian city of Horlivka, Ukrainian news reports said, weeks after the men refused to pledge their allegiance to separatist authorities in the region.

Dmitro Krikunov, head of the Kalininsky district's police unit, and Roman Babyuk, head of the criminal investigation unit, died as a result of gunshot wounds, Ukrainian website crime.in.ua reported Tuesday, citing a spokesman for the Donetsk self-proclaimed authorities.

The two men were among 13 law enforcement officials who refused to comply with a 48-hour ultimatum issued by the region's self-proclaimed authorities on May 13 to pledge their loyalty to the Donetsk People's Republic, local news website Gorlovka.ua said.

It is unconfirmed whether the expired ultimatum and the men's death are related.


Read more: http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/two-senior-police-officers-shot-in-eastern-ukraines-horlivka/500997.html

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There's actually a purported video of this. It's too disturbing to post here, but it's up on Christopher Miller's twitter feed.

https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM

[Benton D Struckcheon]

1. Not surprising.

Haven't looked at the video, but saw it posted earlier today. Don't look at graphic stuff.
Civil wars are generally not polite affairs. We remember ours as two big armies clashing, because of battles like Gettysburg, where civilian deaths amounted to one person.
But that wasn't true everywhere. The South ran a behind-the-lines draft posse known as the Home Guard, and if you resisted you were shot. Southerners who joined up with the North were treated less than well, shall we say.
There were plenty of family feuds, bloody ones, that were spawned from this.
This one features massive support from Russia, and the one thing I cannot for the life of me figure out is what it's going to take before someone with a spine finally calls Russia on the invasion they're running. Large convoys of both men and supplies have been run across the border, and there has been no effort at all on Russia's part to stop it. For some reason, this doesn't seem to be on anyone's radar.

In other news, Russia is set to be President of the Security Council. They say Ukraine will be a high priority. Maybe someone will finally do an Adlai Stevenson on them and show some photos of what they're doing along the border by way of supplying the rebels?
One can hope, anyway.

[Igel]

2. Not sure if this is the same one reported earlier.

The officers were captives. With the demand that if the Ukr military doesn't agree to swap their captives for those taken by the DPR more captives will be shot.

The Ukr press pointed out, however, that the claim was that (other) two police had been shot a few days but instead they turned up a day or two later, having been released.

It's true, all kinds of things happen. But around here, only one side can be wrong. At least the fascist Gubarev seems to be in a bit of disgrace and dropped out of sight. Perhaps Strelkov, Bes ("demon&quot , and Mozhaev (field commanders, not from Ukr), as well as Pushilin and the Russian Borodai will be joining them soon. Abwehr was apparently captured, IIRC (always struck me as funny that a Russian allegedly fighting Ukr fascism took the name of pre-WWII and WWII German intelligence organization).